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" By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career. "

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" The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded. "

" I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence. "

" I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me. "

" I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time. "

" No matter how much money you have, you can lose it. "

" Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not. "

" Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it. "

" I definitely believe in a higher power. "

" I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it. "

" I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made. "

" So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. "

" Pity is just another form of abuse. "

" Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it? "

" My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. "

" I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given. "

" The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot. "

" Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. "

" Pain is temporary, film is forever. "

" As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me. "

" I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded. "

" Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her. "

" If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality. "

" I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor. "

" As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it. "

" When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch. "

" I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day. "

" If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time. "

" The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity. "

" I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded. "

" In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings. "